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Week ending January 25, 2025

Alibabante Chess II. Game with Alibabantes. (10x10, Cells: 100) By HaruN Y.
Swapper Superheroes Chess. Normal chess with the addition of one or more 'swapper' pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Martin Nilsson.
Rabbit Chess. Kangaroo Lion. (10x10, Cells: 100) By HaruN Y.
Chickens and Dragons. Changed my mind and changed the name of the game to "Chickens and Dragons". It's a good name. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Martin Nilsson.
Rook (a.k.a. Chariot). Updated historical notes; Added new diagrams and images Author: Fergus Duniho.

Piececlopedia. An encyclopedic reference on Chess variant pieces. Author: Fergus Duniho.
Problemesis . Updated link

Play Mischia online with Game Courier. A small chess variant on a 6x6 board that plays similar to chess. (6x6, Cells: 36) By William Wragg.

Ultima AI Pieces. Concept art for a set of figurine pieces for Ultima. (8x8, Cells: 64) By Fergus Duniho.
Long Leaper. Added AI concept art Author: Ben Good. Inventor: Robert Abbott.
Manticore. Changed AI graphics; added printable Rhinoceros pieces Author: Bn Em. Inventor: Ralph Betza.
Gnus. Added AI image, printable pieces, checkmating section Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Giraffe. Changed AI image; added printable pieces Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.
Gravitatur Chess. Pokshtya (8x8, Cells: 64) By Вадря Покштя.

Magnetic Piece PNGs. Magnetic style Chess Variant Piece Images in PNG format. Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Fergus Duniho and Armando Hernandez Marroquin.
Chess. The most popular of Chess variants, Chess itself. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho.
Infinite Armada Chess. Chess with an infinite armada of queens behind the FIDE pieces. () Author: Manuel Hohmann. Inventor: Randall Munroe.

Check, or Combination Chess. Pieces may combine in couples and triplets. (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: W. S. Campling.
Amazon chess. Added interactive diagram and sample game from 1891 (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.
Amazon Chess. Now programmed to enforce rules, spot win and loss, and to show legal moves Author: Fergus Duniho.
Promoter Chess. Added to index
REX Hexagonal Chess. Pointed Geocities link to Archive.org (Cells: 85) By Arnaldo Rodrigues D'Almeida.
Zones of Action. Switched to Markdown. Hid solutions with DETAILS tags (8x8, Cells: 64) By Yu Ren Dong.
4 Kings Quasi-Shatranj. Used showpiece instead of displaydiagram to show pieces (10x10, Cells: 100) By Kevin Pacey.
Multimove Chess. Converted to Markdown and preformatted ASCII diagram (8x8, Cells: 64) By David Howe.
Unicorn Chess. Replaced ASCII diagrams with graphic images (10x10, Cells: 100) By David Paulowich.
Unicorn Great Chess. Replaced ASCII diagram with graphic image (10x10, Cells: 100) By David Paulowich.
Split Phase Tri-Chess. Added image (3x(8x8), Cells: 192) By Gary K. Gifford.

Transcendental Chess. Updated link and information on organization (8x8, Cells: 64) Author: Hans L. Bodlaender. Inventor: Max Lawrence.
Wizard. Moves one diagonally or makes (1,3)-jump. Author: Ben Good and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Daniel Macdonald.
Champion. Added AI image and expanded historical notes Author: Ben Good and Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Daniel Macdonald.
Wizard of Oz Octal Chess. Fixed malformed text (8x8, Cells: 64) By George William Duke.
Chess with Wizards. Corrected malformed text; switched to Markdown (10x10, Cells: 100) By Abdul-Rahman Sibahi.
Vao. moves like bishop but must jump when taking. Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.